Facebook friend Addison Whitaker passes this along: It would be Buddy Collette's
90th birthday on August 6th. We're having a 'celebration' on August 9th
at Catalina's in Hollywood. Buddy's Big Band led by John Stephens,
Ernie Andrews, Dee Dee McNeil, and the JazzAmerica Band.
The event is hosted by: Helen Borgers of KJAZZ 88.1 FM. Reservations: 1-323-466-2210 or www.catalinajazzclub.com. Cover charge $20 to benefit JazzAmerica.org.
One of multi-instrumentalist and composer Yusef Lateef's most enduring recordings, Eastern Sounds was one of the last recordings made by the band that Lateef shared with pianist Barry Harris after the band moved to New York from Detroit, where the jazz scene was already dying. Lateef had long been interested in Eastern music, long before John Coltrane
had ever shown any public interest anyway, so this Moodsville session
(which meant it was supposed to be a laid-back ballad-like record),
recorded in 1961, was drenched in Lateef's
current explorations of Eastern mode and interval, as well as tonal and
polytonal improvisation. That he could do so within a context that was
accessible, and even "pretty," is an accomplishment that stands today. Click here for complete review from allmusic.com.
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